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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem

Drilled global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani interviews Elisa Morgera, the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change about Morgera’s latest report on the fundamental shortcomings of credit markets. Posed as…

When Muhammad Ali Met Henry’s Hammer

Before he became Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay was known as the “Louisville Loud-mouth”, as famous for his sharp taunts and poetic put-downs as he was for his skills in the…

Leaving the Life You Trained For

Professional violinist Vijay Gupta grew up performing on the world’s biggest stages in order to fulfill his parents’ dreams for him. But the pressure to play perfectly became too much,…

#68 Songe

When Songe was 8 years old, he made fun of a girl with a facial tic. Just months later, he developed tics of his own—the first signs of the Tourette…

Bao Nguyen on Making Every Frame Matter

The interview opens with Kamau giving flowers to fellow documentary filmmaker Bao Nguyen and praising the breadth and quality of his work. Kamau recounts first meeting Bao through the Bruce…

King of the Roll-Ups: The Man Who Created a Trash Empire, Then Built Blockbuster Video

Wayne Huizenga came from a long line of trash collectors. It was a rough, fragmented, mom-and-pops business which notoriously attracted mobsters. But Huizenga set out to buy his small competitors…

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo helped transform the possibilities of the electric guitar at a time when its role in rock music could seem well established. He came of age in…

Decoding Cardiovascular Health with Dr. Anu Lala

Heart disease is the number one killer of women, but unlike many other major diseases, there’s no single screening test that can tell you if you’re at risk. So how…

President Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America

Malcolm sat down with President Barack Obama while making Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise for a conversation about history, progress, and why democracy is never a finished project. What makes Reconstruction…

Episode 3: The Ninja

In November 1986, Robert Cleland was the head prosecutor in St. Clair County, Michigan. The morning after Cleland lost a statewide race for Attorney General, Scott Macklem was murdered. Cleland…

Why Smaller Goals Can Lead to Bigger Changes with Eric Zimmer

Most of us are familiar with this frustrating pattern: you set a goal, start off strong, but then lose motivation and end up right back at square one. Why does…

How a Broken Arm Improved my French – with David Epstein

Last week, Cautionary Tales described the rise and fall of General Magic, the startup with too much money and too few constraints. Was General Magic really doomed from the start,…